Labour Manifesto Articles

The elevation of manifestos is ridiculous – but they reveal more about a party's priorities, judgement and competence than almost anything else, writes Alan Lockey Imagine yourself a manager of a high profile football club. A well resourced club; one of the richest in...

Well, it finally happened! The thing for which I and a large number of rural based Labour candidates and activists have been campaigning for for the best part of over two years – the rural manifesto – was released on Tuesday and is already being met with sighs of...

Our record on LGBT rights is one of the things that makes me proudest to have served in the last Labour government. The change we delivered during our 13 years in government was rapid and far-reaching and it helped shift society’s view of LGBT people in a way that was...

One of the lesser commented-on aspects of Labour’s manifesto launch this week was Ed Miliband’s declaration that Labour would be seeking to win power in order to give it away. At the core of Labour’s offer to the country is a pledge to give power back to people so...